Hello, Exactly the same as Jack written.And also you can set the application scope paramater in web.xml at starting of your web application by <webapps> <context-param> <param-name>author</param-name> <param-value>abc</param-value> </context-param> </webapps> and access these application scope params by the two ways specified by Jack in above reply. Regards Afroz AhmedSCJP(1.4) SCWCD..on track